Covid broke global medicine. Fixing it is almost impossible
Haley Tippmann Covid-19 has forced politicians to confront something they have up till now preferred to ignore: the fact that most rich countries have effectively outsourced large parts of their medicine production to a handful of other countries – notably China and India. This is especially true for the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that are the building blocks of pills and injections. Advertisement The global medicine market is shaped like an inverted pyramid. Its base comprises APIs, made mostly in China. Many countries manufacture antibiotics, for example, but in 2018, the l...
Source: wired.co.uk